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Migrant groups march to U.S. consulate in Tijuana demanding reparations
The San Diego Union Tribune ^ | 12/12/2018 | Gustavo Solis

Posted on 12/12/2018 5:58:12 AM PST by BradtotheBone

Dec. 12--Two groups of Central American migrants made separate marches on the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana Tuesday, demanding that they be processed through the asylum system more quickly and in greater numbers, that deportations be halted and that President Trump either let them into the country or pay them $50,000 each to go home.

On the one-month anniversary of their arrival into Tijuana, caravan members are pressing the United States to take action but they are dwindling in numbers since more than 6,000 first arrived to the city's shelters.

Approximately 700 have voluntarily returned to their country of origin, 300 have been deported, and 2,500 have applied for humanitarian visas in Mexico, according to Xochtil Castillo, a caravan member who met with Mexican officials Tuesday. The group of unaccounted migrants, about 3,500 are presumed to have either crossed illegally into the United States, moved to other Mexican border cities, or simply fallen through the cracks.

Mexico's National Institution of Migration did not respond to a request to verify those numbers Tuesday.

The first group demanding action, numbering about 100, arrived at the U.S. Consulate at about 11 am Tuesday. The migrants said they were asking that the Trump Administration pay them $50,000 each or allow them into the U.S.

When asked how the group came up with the $50,000 figure, organizer Alfonso Guerrero Ulloa of Honduras, said they chose that number as a group.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico
KEYWORDS: aliens
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To: BradtotheBone

The sense of entitlement is astonishing.


41 posted on 12/12/2018 7:31:41 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Illustrating that we are more of a banana republic than Honduras.

In this particular case, the Honduran Supreme Court exhibited courage and determination.

Kind of makes your point, doesn't it.

42 posted on 12/12/2018 7:39:17 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: COBOL2Java
I just find it humorous that in one breath they’re bitching about Yankee intervention in Central American affairs, then in another demanding that the Yankees intervene in Honduran affairs.

Consistency has never been a Leftist virtue...

43 posted on 12/12/2018 7:40:59 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: BradtotheBone

And a pony...


44 posted on 12/12/2018 7:41:04 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Democrats: Party over Country.)
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To: BradtotheBone
We're going to house illegals on Martha's Vineyard... and in the Mansions next door to effing liberal elites. They want a ‘servant class’? FINE.

OK WITH US..

Let Michael Moore and Nancy and Chuck and Hillary and the rest of 'em do the work of assimilating illegals.

Whatever it cost - we want them living next door to the damn 'elites'...

They'll be right next door - ogling the grandkids of liberal 'elites'... and checking out their fancy cars. Share the work of democracy, 'ELITES' - SHOW US HOW IT'S DONE.


45 posted on 12/12/2018 7:41:43 AM PST by GOPJ (Term limit DC SWAMP bureaucrats - a permanent unelected ruling class is a threat to our democracy.)
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To: JesusIsLord; All
What they're doing is called extortion. If we give them 1 dime, this scene will repeat itself over and over.

Maybe a counter offer, billing them for the amount the U.S. government has had to spend because of their antics.

A bill of about $100,000 each should do it. Payable upon them setting foot in the United States...

46 posted on 12/12/2018 7:44:59 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: BradtotheBone
that the Trump Administration pay them $50,000 each or allow them into the U.S.

Or else what?

When issuing such demands there is inevitably an "or else", so what is it?

47 posted on 12/12/2018 8:37:10 AM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: ronniesgal

I don’t take kindly to demands.


48 posted on 12/12/2018 8:38:03 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: NorthMountain
"Dane-Geld" by Rudyard Kipling

Wow !! Talk about notion that "there is nothing new under the sun!" Great poem!

49 posted on 12/13/2018 5:46:51 AM PST by JesusIsLord
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